Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, announced in 2016, is set to debut this week, no earlier than January 8 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, according to the launch site SpaceFlight Now.

For comparison, SpaceX began developing its first orbital rocket, the Falcon 9 v1.0, in 2005. It made its debut launch five years later, in 2010. That said, New Glenn is more than three times more ...

The New Glenn is a heavy-lift vehicle, Henry noted, and vehicles of its size and power have “grown in importance over the years.” Roughly a decade ago, rocket companies anticipated that small ...

Blue Origin took another significant step toward the launch of its large New Glenn rocket on Tuesday ... because of the rocket and transporter's size, the procession had to follow a more ...

On Sunday, the Jeff Bezos-owned commercial space company will attempt to send its 320-foot-tall New Glenn rocket into space for the first time. The launch comes after almost a decade of ...

The New Glenn stands 320 feet tall and is powered by seven engines capable of generating 3.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff. The rocket’s massive size will make it highly visible along ...

The larger Starship rocket, also designed to be fully reusable, successfully reached orbit and pulled off a successful landing of its first stage last October. New Glenn, by comparison ...

At 2:03 a.m. Eastern time, seven powerful engines ignited at the base of a 320-foot-tall rocket named New Glenn. The flames illuminated night into day at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.